10-08-09 – The Puppies are Coming / Nearly finished…

Alrighty! I feel like I’ve got a zillion things to do, so I’m gonna try and be concise (by which I mean this will inevitably take up far too much time as usual).

The week entailed…

- A seriously fun gig in High Wycombe (6/10)
- Releasing the “Interabang : ON TOUR Episode 2″ animation
- A bit of boyinaband blogging
- Some more primeloops blogs
- Making another new band (The Puppies are Coming)
- Writing another massive single with K and J @ YAWA practice
- Much chilling with Emmie
- Helped Pete get his Technicolor Flipbook online!
- Working on my Uni assignment (so close to never having to think about it again…)
- I want to save time, so here’s an ASCII LOLCat

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When bad gigs turn good!

We arrived in High Wycombe not knowing what to expect, like with most venues. We hadn’t played there before so we didn’t know if we had a following or not.

This time; turns out not – when the first band, Ample sound took to the stage the crowd consisted of their mates. We watched them and the one guy briefly did some beatboxing which was pretty sweet!

When the second “band” went on (I say band – it was ACTUALLY a guy miming over a backing track. Wow. I guess if it’s good enough for Britney…) We decided to see if we could do something about the turnout.

We went downstairs and noticed some people in the beer garden. Kieran and I went out there and got talking to this group of people there for this girl’s birthday. They asked Kieran what we sounded like and what covers we did – we proceeded to do a top-of-our-lungs rendition of “I’m on a Boat”, which actually convinced them to come up and watch us.

In the end we had a great time. The first band’s mates had left, but there were enough people from the birthday group for it to be a fun gig. I got the beatboxy dude up on stage for a quick battle (I let him win ) and everyone, even the promoter was dancing around the room like a ponce.

Fantastic stuff. I was exhausted. We sold some EPs to the guys and gals we convinced to come watch us, then got offered some more, better gigs from both the promoter and a girl who does student nights locally. Ace! We made some friends, much like at the recent Daventry gig, and then said our goodbyes.

All in all a good night. Got home at 4:30am though, fair play to Zak hardcoring the drive home.

The Quest for Fame!

This animation took me literally about 5 days solid. It takes so much to put them together, and the short scene put in time to the song “doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo” took two days alone.

However, it’s finally out and it got a “great” rating on newgrounds! Check it out here

Don’t forget to vote 5 – it helps it be more recognised!

Biab

I did this video just after last week’s blog:

and this tutorial this week:

It’s looking like I’ll be too busy to do a video update this week, but I’ve started on the Drum and Bass 7 day song – it’s sounding crisp so far which is cool. I think I’ve already learned quite a lot! I’ll start actually making the tutorials next week.

Blog wise though, you have to check out my “top 10 g funk artists” list – there are some hilarious songs and rappers in there. Especially “Psycho N I P” who raps about breastfeeding babies with unleaded gas. Real music.

Primeloops

Two more blogs down, 4 to go! I did “10 ways to make your dirty beats dirtier” and “In the Ring: Dubstep Vs Trip Hop” for this week’s blogs. Got to get a-typing for the coming week! Check out those blogs here!

THE PUPPIES ARE COMING

During one hang-out session with Sketch, Scratch, Jazzy Jizzle and Shortty-E (No-one has real names any more) we inevitably made a death metal band, fronted by Sketch. Jamie was loving it, as he got to make some proper metal guitar riffs (they are amazing) and I loved getting to lay down some stupidly death metal drums, then intersperse it with happy sounds.

Sketch has done this AMAZING picture for a logo:

Actually amazing.

I’ll be getting her round to record some more distinguishable vocals today (last time we just ended up shouting random words over the riffs – not so catchy.)

I look forward to seeing how the song turns out!

Ascension

YAWA practice meant giving birth to yet another massive hit single. I wanted something in a similar vein to Watch Me Fly, in that it was a massive epic trance song, but also to make it different enough so it wasn’t a copy. We achieved it – I’d had this gorgeous trance loop I’d written a while back that we took and turned into a full song, with a really nice chilled hip hop verse. Kudos to Jamie on the bassline there.

Just needs some vocals then that’ll be another one in the bag! I really tried to make it a pop song – I’ve taken it as a personal challenge to be able to write original, yet commercial pop music. I want a number one hit.

Emmie/Sketch/Graphics Girl

Yeah, she’s getting a bunch of nicknames now (it was only a matter of time). We recorded some vocals for some of Interabang’s stuff (I also got Fex’s vocals down on one song which has all the member’s vocals on (barring Tashmo) and is coming together really nicely – I might release it next month.)

She’s really enjoying the Intera stuff now, whereas she seemed kinda scared of it when we first started. Methinks she’s grown comfortable with the studio environment and the people in the band a bit more! Which is ace.

Kieran helped her to relax while dancing in front of the green screen too – check it out:

They have the moves.

She’s also done some awesome blogs on Graphics Girl – check them out!

The Technicolor Flipbook

Pete came round this week and Scratch and I assisted him in getting his website “The Technicolor Flipbook” online! Yes, it’s the American spelling of “colour”, but it’s his site so his rules.

There’s some cool blogs on there, have a look at his “Air Line” project, that’s pretty clever.

Check his site out here

Uni, back from the dead…

Yeah, My hand in for my referral module is the 17th August so I figured I should actually finish the work. I’ve booked my Demo on the 18th August as well.

I’d done the most of it, I just added a multiplayer function to my game and got 1000 of the 3000 word essay out the way. I’ve also got a design document to complete which shouldn’t be more than about 1000 words. I’m just tired of typing lately – it feels like all I’m doing is writing about stuff. I can’t wait until I’m doing more stuff rather than writing about things I’ve researched. Though YAWA has 19 gigs in the pipeline so that should provide ample experience to counteract the typing!

But yeah, I’ll finish it tomorrow and send it off recorded delivery so I can be finally free of this burden!

Next Week on Dave’s Blog…

…I have to:

- write two blogs for primeloops.com
- do my (last) 3000 word university essay and hand it in
- Finish the first YAWA video blog and upload it
- Finish the 7DS drum and bass song
- Make the first day of the boyinaband drum and bass tutorial ready for monday
- Get something sorted for boyinaband.com this week
- Put a new YAWA song up on the Myspace (It’s AWESOME!!! I may do this the week after though)
- Organise my birthday bash on the 24th!

AND THE BLOGLY QUESTION: Continuing my G-Funk theme – What’s your favourite unnecessarily violent line from a rap song?